WEEK OF JAN. 25,2010 2ND GRADE LESSON PLANS FOR READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

REMINDERS:

1. Please remember to cover all soft-covered books. Some children still have none of their Reading or Language Arts books covered.

2. Remember to read the purple assignment book and check the HW folder each night to know your child's homework for each day.

3. Your child needs to remember to bring all of their school supplies every day. Many children are coming to class with no pencils or looseleaf.

4. Please check the school blog every day for HW updates and information. It is impossible for the children to copy down everything so please make it a priority to check the blog. Please remember to click under Mrs.Larios, the week and 2nd Grade.

5. Remember that Homework counts as a grade and many children are not completing it. Check your child’s Reading and Language Arts NB every day to see if I have written you a note.

6. The children were given a new book, Anansi the Sider to read this week. Notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. The children should finish the notes by writing the settings of the story, characters, and plot. They will be allowed to use their notes on the test so it is very important that they make notes.

TESTS:

Spelling Test- Friday, 1/29

Vocabulary Test- Friday 1/29 (words in Vocabulary NB)

VOCABULARY WORDS: Test Friday 1/29

  1. abandon- to give up, desert, or surrender
  2. donate- to give a gift to or contribute to a charitable cause (eg. donate to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti).
  3. refuge- shelter from danger; protection
  4. volunteer- someone who offers himself/herself to do a service of his /her own free will.
  5. rescue- to save or deliver from evil, danger, or confinement

READING VOCABULARY WORDS FROM MR. PUTTER AND TABBY FLY THE PLANE: cranes, directions, promise, twitch, worry

High Frequency Words: the students only need to know how to read these words (they do not need to know how to define them): before, blue, ever, jump, room

SPELLING WORDS: Abbreviations (Test- Friday, 1/29)

Mr., Mrs., Dr., Jan., Aug., Dec., Tues., Wed., Sun., St., rehearse, search, before, blue, room

LANGUAGE ARTS- Second Semester Work

Nouns- names a person, place, thing, or animal (pgs. 94-102 Language Handbook).

Singular noun: names one person, place, or thing.

Plural noun: names more than one person, place, or thing.

Add –s or –es to make most nouns plural. For nouns that end in a consonant and y, change y to I and add –es. Add –es to nouns that end in s, ss, x, ch, or sh.

eg. boy-boys, girl-girls, box-boxes, glass-glasses, lunch-lunches, dish-dishes, bus-buses, party-parties, candy-candies, holiday-holidays

Irregular plural noun- some nouns change their spelling to name more than one.

eg. woman-women, foot-feet, goose-geese, child-children, tooth-teeth, mouse-mice, man-men, leaf-leaves

Proper Nouns- Names of people, animals, places, days of the week, months of the year, holidays, names of streets, towns, cities, states, countries, rivers, lakes, and oceans.

Proper nouns begin with capital letters.

eg. Mr. Woods, Dr. Sanchez, Rex, Orlando, Florida, America, Tuesday, January, Christmas, Arden Street, New York, Bronx, Hudson River, Lake George, Atlantic Ocean.

HOMEWORK: See purple assignment book for page numbers

MONDAY: Spelling- write each spelling word 5x each in the Reading NB

TUESDAY: Spelling- write a sentence for spelling words 1-8 in the Reading NB.

WEDNESDAY: Spelling- write a sentence for words 9-15 in the Reading NB

THURSDAY: 1. Language Handbook p. 107 1-8 in Language Arts NB (write each correctly. 2. Study for Spelling and Vocabulary Tests tomorrow.

FRIDAY: Read for at least 15 minutes every day or parents read to your children!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!!

Click the links below to reviews this week's Reading and ELA Lesson Plans:

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